There will always be hope

One disclaimer for the whole story: I don't own either Dragonball Z/GT nor do I own anything concerning Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel the Series! They are the result of both Akira Toriyama's and Joss Whedon's geniuses.

Hello at those of you who haven't read this story yet and at those of you who have, because it might interest you as well. As I got the idea of a Sequel to that fic, I went over that whole story again, corrected mistakes and sometimes even added whole passages… So, feel free to read it again, if you want and those of you, who haven't read that story yet I wish to have fun reading it!

Prologue

A few drops of Dawn's blood dripped over the edge. In midair they met something, and a small circle of light appeared, quickly growing. Buffy led Dawn limping across the platform to the tower entrance. Dawn stopped and turned to Buffy.

"Go!" Buffy demanded.

"Buffy, it's started."

Buffy turned around and both could see the light of the portal.

~*~

Bulma sighed, when she looked out of the window. She still wasn't used to the peace this world was now living in after almost 18 years of terror through the androids. Outside in the frontyard she saw her son Trunks sparring with an invisible opponent. 'Has it already been two years since he defeated the androids? It's seems to me as if it was yesterday.' Trunks would have been 19 years old, if it wasn't because of the Room of Spirit and Time. Now, he was 21. Bulma sighed again. He seemed so depressed in the last year. He even let his hair grow again, which he was now wearing tied back in a ponytail, letting just a few bangs hanging in his face. Suddenly Bulma got an idea. 'Maybe a trip to the past will help him.' Smiling she went to her lap.

Just a few hours later, as Trunks had just finished his training, Bulma awaited him in the kitchen. He immediately noticed that his mother was planning something. "Hey mom! What's up?"

"Trunks, eat something, take a shower, pack a few clothes and meet me in the lap in half an hour. I've got an surprise for you."

Trunks wanted to say something, but his mother already left the kitchen again. Shrugging he did as he was told and met his mother half an hour later in the lap. "So mom, can you please tell me what you want to do with me?"

Smiling she pulled at a large clothes and letting it fall to the ground, revealing the time machine. "You seemed depressed in the last month, so I decided to send you to the past, so that you can see all your friends again. So, what do you say?"

"Mom… That's incredible! Thank you!" he said excitedly and hugged his mother.

Not even ten minutes later, he was sitting in the time machine, ready to leave. "Okay mom. Everything's okay here."

"Okay. Good luck Trunks and greet your father!"

"I will. Bye!"

The time machine took off into the sky and disappeared.

"Strange. What's that?" Trunks asked himself, when he was flying through the worm hole and noticed a small circle of light, which normally shouldn't be there. Suddenly all the instruments on board of the time machine acted up and the time machine itself was drawn to the vortex. Trunks tried everything to get away from this light, but nothing worked. "Holy shit!"

~*~

It was a beautiful day in Satan City. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, everything was perfect. Almost everything, if you were Pan, who was walking alone through the Central Park, surrounded by many happy couples. She hated spring. Everyone seemed to be in love and be loved back. She let out a growl. 'Today! I swear! Today I will tell him! I can't take it anymore!' This morning she decided to tell the man of her dreams that she was in love with him. A man who was fourteen years older than her. The man who probably just saw her as his little sister. 'Trunks.' Pan knew that he wanted to go to the park this day. She had heard a conversation between him and her uncle. She tried to find a track on his ki and she succeeded. He was not far from her. 'But what's that? That's Marron's ki. What does she want in the park? Could she…?' Pan quickly shook her head. It sure was just a coincident.

It didn't take long for Pan to get near Trunks. She saw him leaning with one hand at a tree and it looked like he was talking to someone, but she couldn't see who it was, because the person was standing behind a tree. She took a deep breath, collecting all her courage and walked up to him. At exactly this moment she could make out a bit of blond hair behind the tree and saw Trunks leaning forward and kissing the girl - Marron. Pan could feel anger building up in her body and tears brimming in her eyes. Trunks noticed the familiar ki flicker up behind him and turned around.

"Pan? What are you doing here?" he asked confused.

Pan quickly blinked away her tears. She would never let him see her crying. "Nothing," she replied flatly, "just taking a walk."

"Oh, then… Do you want to join Marron and me? We just wanted to celebrate that we are now a couple."

Pan felt her anger rising more and more. 'How could he be so clueless?'

"Pan? Are you okay?" Marron now wanted to know.

"Sure, why shouldn't I?" Pan felt the tears coming back and the noticed that they were now running down her cheeks. 'Damn!' She quickly turned away from the new couple.

"Pan? Tell me! What's up? I can see that you're not okay! Come on! We've been best friends for so long! You can tell me what's bothering you," Trunks tried to comfort her, but made it even worse.

"Best friends Trunks. Yeah, that's what we were," she told him bitterly and took off into the sky, not caring if anyone saw her.

"Pan! Wait!" Trunks shouted and looked back at Marron, who just nodded, and then followed Pan.

When Pan felt Trunks following her, she sped up even more. The tears in her eyes interfered her from seeing clearly as she flew and way too late she noticed the big white vortex in front of her. She tried her best to stop, but couldn't keep herself from crashing into this vortex, which swallowed her. 'Just great!' she thought sarcastically, before she drifted into unconsciousness. But the last thing she heard before her body went limp was Trunks calling out her name.

~*~

Buffy turned to back to Dawn as Dawn continued staring at the portal.

"I'm sorry," Dawn said tearfully.

"It doesn't matter."

Dawn tried to run past Buffy, but the slayer grabbed her. "What are you doing?"

"I have to jump. The energy."

"It'll kill you."

"I know," the girl said softly as Buffy stared at her, "Buffy, I know about the ritual. I have to stop it."

"No."

"I have to. Look at what's happening."

More lightning crackled, even larger than before. Buffy looked up. A huge dragon flew out of the portal and buzzed the tower, flying away as they watched.

"Buffy, you have to let me go. Blood starts it, and until the blood stops flowing, it'll never stop. You know you have to let me. It has to be my blood."

Suddenly Buffy got a look of realization on her face. She frowned and turned around.

In the distance, holes seemed to be opening in the sky.

Buffy turned back to Dawn, a peaceful look on her face. Dawn stared at her, wide-eyed.

"Buffy… no!"

"Dawnie, I have to."

"No!"

"Listen to me. Please, there's not a lot of time, listen."

Buffy held Dawn by the upper arm and continued talking to her. Dawn began to cry. Buffy stroked the side of Dawn's face and kissed her on the cheek, but Dawn continued to cry. Buffy then turned around and jumped off of the platform into the portal. Dawn could just watch, sobbing, as Buffy fell into the portal. The portal closed and Buffy's lifeless body was now lying on the ground, as the sun rose.

~*~

With a loud bang, Trunks' time machine crashed into a wall as it came out of the portal. It shattered into thousand pieces, but Trunks was able to climb out of the rest of the machine nearly uninjured. When he turned around, he saw that the vortex closed and disappeared. He growled. "Shit. Now I'm stuck here and I don't know how I can get back. Wait a minute. Where is 'here'?"

~*~

"Hey mom! Look! Someone's falling from this roof!" a little girl told her mother, pointing to an unconscious falling body.

At the moment the mother looked to where her daughter was pointing, they heard something hitting the ground. "Oh my god. Stay here! I look what has happened!" the woman told her child and ran over to where the body must have hit the ground. What the mother saw there, shocked here. There was lying a girl, about 18 years old, with a bad injury at her head. The woman slowly got down and felt the pulse. Much to her relief it was still there and she quickly grabbed her cell phone, calling an ambulance.